Canada Council for the Arts Funding to artists and arts organizations in Nunavut, 2009-10 For more information or additional copies of this document, please contact: Research and Evaluation Section 350 Albert Street. P.O. Box 1047 Ottawa ON Canada K1P 5V8 613-566-4414 / 1-800-263-5588 ext. 4526 [email protected] Fax 613-566-4428 www.canadacouncil.ca Or download a copy at: http://www.canadacouncil.ca/publications_e This publication is a companion piece to the Annual Report of the Canada Council for the Arts 2009-10. www.canadacouncil.ca/annualreports Publication aussi offerte en français Research and Evaluation Section – Canada Council for the Arts Table of Contents 1.0 Overview of Canada Council funding to Nunavut in 2009-10 ................................................................. 1 2.0 Statistical highlights about the arts in Nunavut ............................................................................................ 2 3.0 Highlights of Canada Council grants to Nunavut artists and arts organizations ............................... 3 4.0 Overall arts and culture funding in Nunavut by all three levels of government .............................. 7 5.0 Detailed tables of Canada Council funding to Nunavut ......................................................................... 10 List of Tables Table 1: Government expenditures on culture, to Nunavut, 2007-08 ............................................................ 8 Table 2: Government expenditures on culture, to all provinces and territories, 2007-08 ....................... 8 Table 3: Government expenditures on culture $ per capita by province and territory, 2007-08 ......... 9 Table 4: Canada Council grants to Nunavut and Canada Council total grants, 1999-00 to 2009-10 ...................................................................................................................... 10 Table 5: Canada Council grants to Nunavut by discipline, 2009-10 ............................................................ 11 Table 6: Grant applications to the Canada Council from Nunavut and total grant applications to the Canada Council, 1999 -00 to 2009-10 ....................................................................... 12 Table 7: Nunavut – various comparisons with other provinces, 2009-10 ................................................. 13 Table 8: Grant funding by community, Nunavut, 2009-10 .............................................................................. 14 Note: In past years, a list of grants to individual artists and arts organizations by province or territory was included at the end of each section. Starting in 2008-09, these listings are available through the Searchable Grants Listing on the Canada Council’s website (http://www.canadacouncil.ca/grants/recipients/ol127245536828281250.htm). Funding to artists and arts organizations 2009-10 edition Research and Evaluation Section – Canada Council for the Arts Nunavut 1.0 Overview of Canada Council funding to Nunavut in 2009-10 • In 2009-10, the Canada Council for the Arts provided grants totalling $457,500 to the arts in Nunavut. • In addition to grants, $1,542 in payments was provided to five authors through the Public Lending Right program in 2009-10,1 as well as $9,300 in special funds. This brings the total funding to Nunavut to $468,342. • The Canada Council distributed $151,000 in funds to a total of 15 artists while $306,500 was awarded to seven Nunavut arts organizations. • Grants were awarded to Nunavut artists and arts organizations in media arts, music, theatre, visual arts, writing and publishing, interdisciplinary arts and through the Canada Council’s Aboriginal Arts Secretariat. The largest amount of funding went to media arts ($178,000), followed by interdisciplinary arts ($87,500) and visual arts ($32,500). • 32 applications from Nunavut artists and arts organizations were submitted to the Canada Council in 2009-10, representing 0.2% of the total number of received applications. • Funding to artists and arts organizations in Igloolik totalled $319,500, comprising 69.8% of the total funding going to Nunavut. This high proportion of funding to Igloolik remains the result of increased media arts activity in the area over the past decade. Iqaluit received $85,500, or 18.7% of total funding. Cambridge Bay received $42,000 in funding representing 9.2% of total funding. Two other communities received $10,500 representing 2.3% of total funding. • In 2009-10, Nunavut artists received 0.7% of Canada Council funding to artists, and Nunavut arts organizations received 0.3% of the funding to arts organizations. In total, Nunavut artists and arts organizations received 0.3% of Canada Council funding. In comparison, Nunavut represents 0.1% of the total Canadian population,2 and 0.2% of Canadian artists.3 • One artist from Nunavut served as a peer assessor in 2009-10, comprising 0.1% of all peer assessors. 1 The Public Lending Right program provides payments to authors whose books are held in selected Canadian public libraries. 2Statistics Canada: Canada's National Statistical Agency. “Population by year, by province and territory,” July 2009, <http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/demo02a-eng.htm>. 3 Hill Strategies Research Inc. “Artists in Canada’s Provinces and Territories Based on the 2006 Census,” Statistic Insights on the Arts, Vol.7 No. 5, March 2009, <http://www.hillstrategies.com/docs/Artists_provinces2006.pdf>. Funding to artists and arts organizations 2009-10 edition 1 Nunavut Research and Evaluation Section – Canada Council for the Arts 4 2.0 Statistical highlights about the arts in Nunavut • Over $18 million was spent on culture by all levels of government in Nunavut in 2007-08. Per capita cultural spending ranks third among provinces/territories in terms of the federal contribution ($387) and second in terms of the provincial/territorial investment ($233). According to the 2006 census: • There are 250 artists in Nunavut who spent more time at their art than at any other occupation in May 2006. Artists represent 1.86% of the overall territorial labour force. • In 2006, the median earnings of artists in Nunavut were $10,000, just over one-third of the typical earnings of all territorial workers ($26,800). • In Nunavut, the broader cultural sector labor force has about 700 workers (5% of the total labour force). That means that one in every 20 people in Nunavut has a cultural occupation. • In terms of Canada’s 10 most artistic small and rural municipalities, Cape Dorset, Nunavut, is the second-ranked municipality (9.47% of its labour force in arts occupations). According to Cape Dorset’s website, carving and printmaking are major economic activities in the municipality that calls itself the “Inuit Art Capital of Canada.” Two well-known Cape Dorset visual artists are Kenojuak Ashevak (a recipient of the Order of Canada whose best-known works are prints and drawings) and carver Ohito Ashoona (recipient of the 2002 National Aboriginal Achievement Award for arts and culture). 4 Sources Statistics Canada: Canada's National Statistical Agency. “Government Expenditures on Culture: Data Tables 2007-08,” April 2010, <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/87f0001x/2010001/part-partie4-eng.htm>. Hill Strategies Research Inc. “Artists in Canada’s Provinces and Territories Based on the 2006 Census,” Statistic Insights on the Arts, Vol.7 No. 5, March 2009, <http://www.hillstrategies.com/docs/Artists_provinces2006.pdf>. Hill Strategies Research Inc. “Artists in Small and Rural Municipalities in Canada Based on the 2006 Census,” Statistic Insights on the Arts, Vol. 8 No. 2, January 2010, <http://hillstrategies.com/docs/Artists_small_rural2006.pdf>. 2 Funding to artists and arts organizations 2009-10 edition Research and Evaluation Section – Canada Council for the Arts Nunavut 3.0 Highlights of Canada Council grants to Nunavut artists and arts organizations Arts organizations The Canada Council supports the work of arts organizations. In 2009-10, Nunavut organizations receiving funding were: Organization Community Total funding Arnait Media Productions IGLOOLIK $24,000 Artcirq IGLOOLIK $100,000 Inhabit Media Inc. IQALUIT $20,000 Kitikmeot Heritage Society CAMBRIDGE BAY $42,000 Nunavut Arts & Crafts Association IQALUIT $30,000 Nunavut Independent TV Network IGLOOLIK $65,000 Puhitaq IQALUIT $25,500 Examples of Canada Council funding in Nunavut5 The Canada Council supports the endeavours of professional artists and arts organizations through its programs. The following selection illustrates the scope of the activities supported by the Canada Council in Nunavut. Through the Travel Grants to Theatre Artists program, established playwright Chris Heide of Pangnirtung, Nun. was awarded $2,000 to attend rehearsals and the premiere of his play The Gravesavers at the Halifax Theatre for Young People in April 2009. Adapted by Sheree Fitch’s novel for young adults, the play is a 90-minute ghost story that shifts between the 1873 S.S. Atlantic Shipwreck and present-day teenage troubles. While in Nova Scotia, Heide visited schools, participated in media interviews and met with others within the young theatre artist field. This was Heide’s first attempt in adapting the work of a living author, and his time spent in Halifax allowed him to engage directly with the author of the novel. Described as spooky, spunky and smart by Amanda Campbell of The Way I See It-Online Theatre Blog, the play provided young audiences with a high calibre production that thrilled, challenged and enriched. The Nunavut Arts and